As dinner approaches, although Guzheng’s Qidian has not yet received a single business, the discussion on Qidian is very popular online. Unfortunately, people who will discuss such things enthusiastically often do not dare to bet, or
They are people who don’t have the strength to gamble.
A strange restaurant like Qidian opened in the city, and the cultivators naturally learned about it very quickly.
Immortal cultivators are different from mortals. The Qidian bulletin board that mortals see is just an ordinary bulletin board! But the fonts displayed on the Qidian bulletin board that immortal cultivators see are specifically for immortal cultivators. Therefore, immortal cultivators
The reader knows that the so-called Qidian is an unusual immortal kitchen restaurant! In order to complete a certain task, the owner is also willing to do business with immortal cultivators, but the remuneration and compensation are replaced by resources with higher value.
There were also two immortal cultivators, who entered the No. 1 Qidian and No. 2 Qidian respectively, and also made some inquiries about Guzheng. However, they did not express their position on whether they were willing to give it a try. As for the conversation with them,
Gu Zheng has also been made into a video, but it will not be shown to ordinary people, but will only be shown to cultivators who come to inquire again, so as to save some trouble of explanation.
"Master, do you think that boy will stop coming?"
Seeing that it was getting late, and the young man who was most likely to be the first customer of Qidian had not yet appeared, Dieling couldn't help but feel a little anxious.
"Maybe he sensed that you wanted to deal with him, so he was too scared to come!"
Gu Zheng knew that it was useless to be anxious, so he joked with Die Ling.
The nervousness on Die Ling's face disappeared and she playfully stuck out her tongue at Gu Zheng.
However, Gu Zheng and Die Ling did not let Gu Zheng and Die Ling wait any longer, and the young man finally appeared again.
"First see if these ingredients can be used."
The young man placed a bag on the table and poured out the contents.
"It took you a lot of time to collect these things, right?"
When Gu Zheng saw what the young man brought out, he felt a little happy.
"Okay!"
The young man raised his eyebrows at Gu Zheng proudly.
In the young man's opinion, even if some of the things he carefully prepared were discarded by Gu Zheng, they could still dampen Gu Zheng's arrogance and let him know the price of bragging.
I have to say that these things that the young man brought are of a certain standard. If ordinary chefs see these things, they will definitely be confused and don’t know how to make them into delicious food! However, for Gu Zheng, the young man
The things I brought here are a bit too childish.
A preserved egg in the shell, two wilted green onions, a head of garlic with sprouts, a piece of pickled ginger, a bit of moldy Sichuan peppercorns, two red peppers with wormholes, a handful of coarse salt, and a piece of lard.
, a piece of brown sugar that has solidified and hardened.
"Although the bulletin board outside your store says that the number of main ingredients can be more than one, but since it depends on the situation, I only took one main ingredient. As for the auxiliary ingredients, you see
See if there is anything that needs to be removed?"
The young man was very proud. Preserved eggs were a food he hated very much. The smell of lime in them would make him nauseous! He really didn't believe that Gu Zheng could make such an ingredient into a kind of food.
Let him eat something that will be very delicious! As for those auxiliary ingredients, even if Gu Zheng discards them all, the young man doesn't care at all, he only wants the ecstasy taste of preserved eggs!
The food provided by the young man was naturally seen by the Taotie jade carving in the restaurant, and the message it conveyed to Gu Zheng was no problem.
"No need! As long as there are no serious conflicts with the ingredients provided by customers, I will not give up anything, so you don't have to worry about me doing anything unscrupulous in order to win!"
Gu Zheng smiled at the young man. The cooking method had already appeared in his mind when he saw these ingredients, so he smiled easily.
"Ah."
The young man shrugged, sadness flashed in his eyes.
"One more thing, you said that if customers decide to ask you to cook, they must swear, then I also need you to swear that you will not cheat when cooking these ingredients!" said the young man.
"Okay!" Gu Zheng nodded and smiled.
The young man thought for a while and then said: "Am I really the one who has the final say on the taste of the ingredients as long as I am satisfied with them?"
"As long as you swear not to go against your will, then naturally you have the final say!" Gu Zheng said.
"Okay, I'm willing to let you cook these things, let's start swearing?" the young man said.
"please!"
Gu Zheng made a gesture of invitation to the young man.
The young man didn't ask any more questions. When he came to the Taotie jade sculpture, he swore a poisonous oath, and Gu Zheng also swore an oath according to the script.
In fact, for Gu Zheng, cheating does not exist on his side. If he cheats in violation of the rules, Qi Ling will be the first to refuse. As for what the young man's definition of cheating is, he does not have to go.
You know, he just needs to do it according to his heart.
As for the young man's oath, it actually doesn't mean much. With the Taotie statue there, the young man can't say anything against his will. And the reason why he wanted to write this point on the bulletin board was just because Gu Zheng wanted to
Win people's trust to the greatest extent possible.
"I will leave the compensation here for the time being. If I don't do well, these are all yours." Gu Zheng pointed to the box in front of the Taotie statue.
"If you can convince me, one hundred thousand yuan is nothing."
The young man also put his money on it.
Without saying anything else, Gu Zheng headed to the kitchen.
There are no private rooms in Qidian, so the young man sits in the so-called lobby. As for the kitchen, it is not in a place where customers cannot see it. It is just a space separated by glass in the lobby.
"Master, what is the quality of the ingredients in these things?"
Although Die Ling is not in the kitchen, this does not prevent her from communicating with Gu Zheng through her thoughts.
"Preserved eggs that are too alkaline and moldy Sichuan peppercorns are considered toxic ingredients. Some spoiled green onions and sprouted garlic are considered junk ingredients. Although red peppers have wormholes, they are not inherently bad.
, it, together with the un-soaked ginger and brown sugar that has condensed into lumps, can barely be regarded as low-grade ingredients. As for coarse salt and lard, they can be regarded as low-grade ingredients." Gu Zheng said.
"Master, let ordinary fairy chefs cook such ingredients, can they make delicious food?" Die Ling asked again.
"Your sister divided delicacies into ten. Most people's taste buds realize that seven is the limit. Master Tie Xian asked me to reach eight. If according to this standard, among the three levels of immortal chefs, there are only a handful of first-grade immortal chefs.
Only then can we do this! After all, the ingredients provided by the young man are all low-grade ingredients, and some of the auxiliary ingredients cannot be matched with the main ingredients! In this case, if you want to turn decay into magic, you must
Knowing enough about the ingredients and being able to really control the changes in taste after they collide is easy to say but difficult to do," Gu Zheng said.
"A bunch of low-grade ingredients, it's hard to imagine how weird they will taste when cooked together! How weird will they turn into a delicious food that is praised?" Butterfly Spirit murmured.
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"What I just said is relatively superficial. If I say it more deeply, if you want to complete this business perfectly, the most difficult thing is not the change in taste!" Gu Zheng smiled.
"Isn't the change in taste the most difficult? So what is the most difficult?" Die Ling's eyes widened.
"It varies from person to person!" Gu Zheng said.
"It varies from person to person?" Die Ling looked puzzled.
"This young man looks flamboyant, but he is actually quite thoughtful. Among the ingredients he provided, he himself is allergic to preserved eggs! So, if you don't know this, even a first-class immortal chef will be in trouble!" Gu Zheng
road.
"ah?"
Die Ling glanced at the silent young man and suddenly felt that this guy was extremely cunning.
"How did the master know that this kid is allergic to preserved eggs?" Die Ling asked.
"Because I have the Eye of the Tao! And this business is with mortals, not immortal cultivators. Naturally, I have to consider whether the food is suitable for a mortal's physique! So I use the Eye of the Tao.
I went to see him and found out that preserved eggs make him allergic," Gu Zheng said.
"Master, how do you solve this problem?" Die Ling asked.
"As long as you know it, it will be easy to solve. I will just remove the ingredients in the preserved eggs that make him allergic," Gu Zheng said.
"By the way, Master, will you improve the quality of the ingredients?" Die Ling asked again.
"I will not use the power of Tao to directly improve the grade of the ingredients. I will only try to process the ingredients as much as possible. If I use the power of Tao to directly improve the grade of the ingredients, then it will be cheating! Because this test is for the chef.
Art, directly using the power of Tao to improve the quality of ingredients, is not considered a part of cooking."
Gu Zheng's voice paused, and then he said: "However, this is only for ordinary people! If the customer is a cultivator, because their taste buds can experience the level of eight or even nine, the Taotie statue requires me to do it
The standard is nine or above, so when facing the ingredients provided by the cultivators, I can raise the grade of the ingredients to a higher level!"
Although Gu Zheng had a lot of exchanges with Die Ling, it didn't take much time. Gu Zheng also started to do preliminary processing of the ingredients.
Remove seeds and insects from red pepper, wash and set aside.
Gu Zheng put the moldy peppercorns in clean water and used the Water Control Technique while stirring them, and the mold on them was quickly cleaned up.
"These peppercorns are very mildewed, otherwise the Taotie statue would tell you that this kind of stuff cannot be used as food." Qi Ling said.
"Understand, it is this kind of food that is on the edge of being bad or not bad that can better test my control over the food." Gu Zheng said.
There were some spoiled green onions, so Gu Zheng only took the unspoiled part. But just when Gu Zheng was about to wash them, the young man spoke.
"You have removed all the bad parts and only want the good parts. This..."
The young man couldn't go on. He felt that he should raise questions, but he felt that he shouldn't, so he was a bit conflicted.
"The part I removed is not much. If you kept this in your own home, you wouldn't eat the whole onion, right? Although I am very confident in my cooking skills, the part that has deteriorated to the point that it can no longer be considered as an ingredient
, I definitely won’t cook it for you! Just like the preserved egg you gave me, the lime and sawdust on the surface are not edible. I can’t cook it with the shell on just because it is the ingredient you provided.
Can I give it to you?" Gu Zheng said with a smile.
"Well, pretend I didn't say that." The young man rolled his eyes.
The sprouted garlic was not treated in any way. It was just removed from the garlic skin and temporarily soaked in clean water. After the preserved eggs were peeled and washed, they were also placed in clean water. The soaked ginger slices were also placed in clean water.
As for the clumped brown sugar, Gu Zheng boiled it in a pot.
After the lard was simply washed and coarsely salted into water, Gu Zheng used water control techniques to separate out the parts that would affect the taste.
The ingredients have all gone through preliminary processing, and when they go through the in-depth processing of Gu Zheng, the quality of the ingredients will almost change. Of course, this cannot be considered cheating, because removing the bad and retaining the good is always a part of cooking.
"I suddenly have a question!" the young man said again.
"Say." Gu Zheng said.
"Is there anything fishy in the water you use to process ingredients?"
The young man discovered that when Gu Zheng processed the ingredients, he used neither mineral water nor tap water. All the water he used was scooped from the water tank in the kitchen.
"Don't worry! This water is tap water, but I left it outside last night and absorbed some moonlight essence and fairy essence."
Gu Zheng was not lying about this. Ordinary tap water cannot be used! After all, the ecological environment of Fenglan Star is similar to that on Earth. However, Gu Zheng did not directly use the method of improving ingredients to improve the quality of tap water.
, he used the method of ordinary fairy chefs to purify water, and by absorbing moonlight essence and fairy essence, the originally low-quality tap water reached an ordinary level.
"How long does it take you to cook a dish? I didn't ask you the time before. You probably can't cook it for a day, right?" the young man asked again.
"It's not that exaggerated! The ingredients are quite special, so handling them is naturally troublesome, but no matter how time-consuming it is, this dish will never take more than half an hour from the time it is processed to the time it is served."
After listening to Gu Zheng for less than half an hour, the young man stopped saying anything.
There was not much brown sugar in the first place, but it was boiled down into syrup by Gu Zheng.
Because the kitchen is relatively closed, the young people cannot smell it. The not-so-pleasant sweetness unique to brown sugar has completely disappeared! The sweetness that replaced it actually has a refreshing taste.
, when people smell it, they can think of taking a bite of crispy raw food and chewing a mouthful of sweet sugar cane.
"That's right. By boiling the brown sugar, which was originally of poor quality, it has turned into the syrupy syrup it is now. I have to say that it's amazing!" Qi Ling said.
"Using the conventional methods of Xianchu, coupled with my Tao Eye, as well as the control of the fire, the understanding of the ingredients, etc., the originally low-quality brown sugar was transformed into ordinary-quality syrup. But if I use Tao's
I strive to improve the quality of the ingredients, and I can improve the brown sugar that has condensed into blocks to high quality!" Gu Zheng said.
"The original low-quality brown sugar was transformed into ordinary-quality syrup without using the power of Tao. This is really amazing! An ordinary fairy chef who can transform it into inferior-quality syrup is regarded as
Very good." Qi Ling said.
"Jingle Bell……"
The young man's phone suddenly rang.
"We have said before that your cooking process cannot be broadcast to outsiders! However, from my understanding, you do not allow me to record a video for dissemination, right?"
The young man did not answer the phone directly, but looked at Gu Zhengdao.
"That's right."
That's what Gu Zheng really meant. He didn't want ordinary people to know that he was a fairy chef, so he didn't want customers to take videos.
"The person who called me was a chef friend of mine. He was very curious about my visit to Qidian. He called me at this time. He probably wanted to ask me how you cook. I wanted to tell him that you are
How to cook is completely different from the video, will you object to my approach?"
Although the young man is arrogant, he is also more cautious. He does not want to become a defaulter in the ancient dispute because of something he did.
"Can."
Gu Zheng smiled lightly and continued to process his ingredients.
As Die Ling said before, even if Gu Zheng deliberately conceals his identity as an immortal cultivator, his identity as an immortal cultivator will still be guessed by others, and he will gain more and more recognition from mortals! After all, he cannot spend time to let others know.
No one talks about Qidian, and it is impossible to erase everyone’s memory about Qidian. Then, there is no need to take some things too seriously.
Gu Zheng agreed happily, but the young man was stunned. He didn't expect Gu Zheng to be so straightforward! In this kind of situation, isn't it that one party tries every means to get benefits, and the other party tries not to give benefits?
Unable to see through Gu Zheng, the young man simply ignored it and answered the call from his friend.
Facing inquiries from friends, young people are almost like doing a live broadcast.
"The shopkeeper boiled brown sugar into syrup before, then took the preserved eggs out of the water, and fried the lard. Now he is using lard to fry Sichuan peppercorns, chili peppers and garlic cloves!"
The young man reported on the progress of Guzheng, and then asked his friend: "Usually, preserved eggs are either eaten cold or made into lean meat porridge. Among the ingredients I gave, brown sugar, lard, and pickled ginger should all be used."
It doesn’t go well with preserved eggs, right? Do you think he can really use these things to make delicious food? And it’s still delicious to me?”
"Normally, you can't make delicious food with these things! However, since people dare to open a shop, they naturally have support. If they don't let the video be spread, isn't it because they are afraid that people will see what's wrong? So you still don't think about winning.
So optimistic!”
Although the conversation between the young man and his friend was very low, it still reached Gu Zheng's ears.
"Humph, unless he is really capable, if he dares to play any tricks, I guarantee that his store will not be able to open!" said the young man.
"What if he is an immortal cultivator?" asked the young friend.
"Don't be ridiculous! If he really is a cultivator, then I would be relieved! At least I don't have to think about whether he is doing this to defraud money!" said the young man.
"Even if he is not a cultivator, I think this person is still a cultivator. Under normal circumstances, the ingredients you give him will never be able to be made delicious!" said the young man's friend.
"Brother, he actually put onions, ginger and preserved eggs, along with salt, lard and sugar syrup, all in a pot of cold water, and then lit the fire! Is he going to boil a preserved egg for me?" said the young man.
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"I don't see anyone who is really anxious! Forget it, I won't tell you anymore, just tell me the result later! Don't wait, call me as soon as you find out!"
The young man's friend hung up the phone. Although he had not participated in gambling, as a chef, he was naturally very interested in food that went beyond common sense.
